Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perkins," and Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. who said: "Let me ask you boys from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that our living conditions are not proper and do not constitute the standard of living that you seem to think we should have?" He sat down amid a chorus of enthusiastic rebel yells...
...wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared to the spectacular humanism radiating from the White House. During much of the short reign of Edward VIII those British subjects who admired what they considered His Majesty's spectacular humanism saw in this spirit something their whole kingdom should...
...Faced by an increasingly secular world, the Episcopal Church does not seem on the basis of its statistics to be actually moving forward." So last week editorialized the Living Church Annual, unofficial Episcopal yearbook, in presenting Episcopal facts and figures for 1937. The Church numbered 27,672 more baptized persons than in 1936 (total 2,095412) and gained 15,805 communicants (total 1,424,137). Episcopalians gave $31,938,489.04 for all purposes, the highest figure since 1933. The Episcopal clergy numbered 6,390, an increase of five men. But there were 21 fewer ordinations to the diaconate, seven fewer...
...human sites," declared Detective Hrdlicka. "show botanical phenomena which seem well to deserve an expert study...
...booksellers' collection of 200 volumes contained many books of only immediate interest, a few which had very little of that. Nor did its seven detective stories seem destined to be the nucleus of a permanent collection. The fiction, which looked weak in comparison with the biography and works of history, included Gone With the Wind and Of Time and the River, but it also numbered such minor works of doubtful durability as Fannie Hurst's We Are Ten and Robert Nathan's Enchanted Voyage. But with works of the stature of Douglas Southall Freeman...